After the committee’s last summer hearing on January 6th last week, the talk about the CNN and MSNBC set was intrigued by the well-known possibilities of what would happen from the panel’s discovery. .. According to many experts, the proceedings of former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal prosecution were not only justified, but likely given evidence of his omission when the riots dismissed the Houses of Parliament. It was like.
If it feels like déjà vu-more predictions of Mr. Trump’s impending collapse-the response to hearings from the Protrump platform is violent in his pretoria guards of friendly media. It felt like something new, reflecting the length of the rewrite of history that day.
Even though the Commission’s clear depiction of Mr. Trump’s failure to intervene led to the two influential exits on the right. New York post When The Wall Street JournalTo blame him over the weekend, many conservative media top personalities continued to push the more disinfected story of January 6, 2021. They turned the Capitol police into villains and claimed the existence of a government conspiracy to criminalize political objections.
Talk radio host Mark Levine ridiculed the idea that Mr. Trump tried to overturn the election or incite a riot. If he had, Mr Levin would be more direct, such as ordering the arrest of Vice President Mike Pence or dismissing the Attorney General when he appeared on Fox News when another network broadcast the hearing live. He explained that he would have taken some measures.
“In every story about crime, you’ll think they’ll show us,” Levin told Fox News Thursday night. “There is nothing,” he added. “There is no evidence that Donald Trump was involved in our elections or efforts to violently overthrow our government. There is literally nothing.”
And to explain exactly what he means, Mr. Levin Amendment Article 14 This means that anyone “engaged in a riot or rebellion” is forbidden to hold federal positions.
That’s why the media continued to call January 6 a “riot,” Levin explained.
(The author of this article is a contributor to MSNBC.)
Some of the rights messages to Trump supporters may have, in effect, frightened and rebelled against what you initially thought happened in the Capitol, but you were fooled by the mainstream media.
“Strangely, when I talk to these people, their dislike of the media on January 6th is stronger than it was a year ago,” said Joe, a former Republican and talk radio host. Walsh said. Unwavering support for Mr. Trump. By the time the commission presented the evidence, Walsh added, “half of the country didn’t care or thought it was a hoax.”
Dissonance can be embarrassing. As Laura Ingraham wrote it in a text to Mark Meadows on January 6, he begged the president’s chief of staff to intervene in the president or risk “destroying his legacy.” The same Fox News host has now accused the mainstream media of being exaggerated. An event at the Houses of Parliament.
Important revelation from the January 6 hearing
Conservative stories often rely on the core of truth about incomplete or inconsistent statements from law enforcement agencies and witnesses.
One of the most influential journalists on the right who has supported Mr. Trump since January 6 is Julie Kelly, a writer for the American Greatness website, whose article was reported in larger conservative media such as Fox News. It has been. For over a year, Kelly has questioned the seriousness of the attack and downplayed the death of a police officer on the scene that day.
Ann Early report US Capitol Police reported on January 6 that police officer Brian Sicknick died after falling after being injured “while physically involved” with a Trump rioter. Autopsy later revealed that he died of natural cause after he suffered multiple strokes hours after the attack.
Mr. Kelly and others often did not admit that police officers were assaulted by rioters and sprayed with unknown chemical stimulants, or that the trauma he experienced could have affected his condition. I grabbed the findings without consideration. OK. “Sicknick did not die as a result of what happened on January 6th.” She declared A work performed in April under the heading “Refund the Police of the Houses of Parliament”. “But that doesn’t stop Parliamentary police from continuing to forge lies that Trump supporters are responsible for his death,” Kelly added.
Kelly didn’t reply to the email asking for comment.
Another way the conservative media personality turned on Parliamentary Police is to argue that the notion that people forcefully invade the Capitol is a hoax of some sort.
The January 6 committee showed numerous videos of the riots invading. One captured a member of the Proud Boys. Dominique PezolaUse police shields to break windows and allow dozens of mobs to attack the building.
In Tucker Carlson’s Friday program on Fox News, he ridiculed the testimony of an anonymous former White House guard. Carlson then played a video of a large number of Parliamentary police officers passively waiting while the riots ran through the barricade.
“I don’t know why the police are filming a video of people entering the Capitol,” he called the hearing a “show trial” and proud of his network that didn’t air during the golden time. Said.
New heroes emerge as police officers in the Capitol are portrayed as non-heroic. One of the stories on the right side last week was that a 69-year-old woman, Pam Henfil, was sentenced to 60 days in prison after pleading guilty to trespassing the Parliament on January 6. did. Hemphill was portrayed in Clay Travis, and the Buck Sexton show, which replaced Rush Limbaugh’s program in many markets, was the epitome of the sympathetic message conservatives heard about her. The organizers described her as her victim, her grandmother, and an unreasonably harshly sentenced cancer patient.
“Think of the months of BLM protests across the country.” Said Clay Travis mentions the Black Lives Matter movement. “How many of these real rioters spend 60 days in prison for what they caused? This is absolutely undefended.”
Even the biggest revelation from the Commission has leveled off in the right-wing media. Some right-wing commentators said when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson explained Mr. Trump’s violent reaction after the Secret Service agent refused to escort him to the Capitol. I can’t go to the former president’s fans who insisted that he would be encouraged to hear that he was angry.
Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow, as he says, tells his audience that many Trump supporters love the idea that their president is fighting to join them in the Capitol. talked.
Marlowe said in an email that many conservatives in the audience thought they had seen the hearing when they conducted an impeachment procedure and an investigation into Russia’s interference by Robert S. Mueller III in the 2016 elections. .. “Trump was a victim of defamation campaigns by political groups and media outlets,” he explained.
Part of the effectiveness of the conservative media defense against the actions of the former president on January 6 was its uniformity. As the Commission argued, few people broke the ranks to question his actions. However, some have begun to take an interest in other potential Trump rivals, such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Ingraham aired her show on Friday at a location from Florida, where she interviewed the governor.
However, the fierce criticism of Mr. Trump’s post and journal over the weekend suggests that deeper cracks may have begun to form.
Both publications, such as Fox News, which are part of Rupert Murdoch’s conservative Medes empire, have published editorials that question Mr. Trump’s personality. The journal described the latest exposure of his negligence as “terrifying.”
The post went a step further, calling his actions on January 6 his “eternal shame” and proclaiming that “Trump once again proved not worth becoming the CEO of the country.”
